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Japan’s flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on 17 February but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by a basic engineering error. It was the old "off-by-one" (satellite) error
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Riiight... like it's not really a secret spy satellite.
"Oh dear, it broke, we'll just leave it here, think nothing of it."
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The software was probably written in Ruby. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: written in Ruby
Ruby off Rails? 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Testing? We don't need no stinkin' testing.
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On April 28, 2003, Apple started up a revolution. If it's broke, why bother fixing it?
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Pretty much been about 10 years since I've used it
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That's the best way to deal with it.
TTFN - Kent
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Isn't it funny that my date for last used iTunes is still nil. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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What is this iTunes you speak of?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've used iTunes on my Mac for the last 7 years and it's always worked flawlessly - yet I see these kind of comments all the time.
I'm curious, what exactly do so many people hate about it? And what do they use in place of it?
Back when I used Windows at home I seem to recall WMP was nothing to rave about.
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/shrug It works for me too, but I'm the worst one for testing software - if it's not actively broken (like Windows is for me at the moment), I'm willing to live with just about anything.
I know Hanselman complains that "working with iTunes is like managing your music library with Excel" (or something like that).
And yeah, anything said about iTunes can also apply to WMP, as it was a pretty direct copy. But then again, I don't know if people are even using it for their music anymore.
TTFN - Kent
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As Windows Media Player has been around since 1991, while iTunes has been around since 2001 (making the headline article a bit crap at maths), I don't really see how WMP can be the copy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I wasn't sure which software you were referring to because you used the shortened name.
It's full name is: iTunesVirus.
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I never tried it. I never saw a reason to line the pockets of Apple executives when YouTube has everything I'll ever need.
modified 29-Apr-16 0:17am.
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I always thought Apple was awful, but iTunes is, by far, the worst piece of crap software I've ever dealt with...
I remember that time I just installed iTunes, just to try it out. First thing it did was sync my (full 160GB) iPod with my (still empty) iTunes library (didn't even ask if I wanted that!)  
Winamp is still my music player of choice 
For streaming I use Spotify.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Winamp is still my music player of choice
(Unfortunately, the web site has been saying "There's More Coming Soon" for quite a while now. Too bad the owners don't spin it off as open source.)
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Yeah, I was sad to see it go, but when the site was updated with "More Coming Soon" I was excited!
Too bad "Soon" turned out to be somewhere between now and infinity 
You can still download the latest stable version though (5.666).
I think it was somehow optimized for playing Iron Maiden! 
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In this year's "Founder's Letter", Sundar Pichai puts down his six areas of focus for the famously unfocused company. Is the AI going to have to watch commercials before taking over the world?
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GCC 6.1 defaults to the C++ 14 standard and enhances experimental support for C++ 17 It's C++, ++!
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Quote: GCC has front ends and libraries for languages, including C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go.
I don't understand, why the introduction comes at the end of the post.
Besides, ++C++ would have been better.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The nostalgia for periodic big upgrades every five to 10 years is seriously misplaced, and it's not good for users or IT. Speak for yourself
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OpenAI is releasing tools you can run locally to test out algorithms in various “environments” — including Atari games like Air Raid, Breakout, and Ms. Pacman — and a Web service for sharing test results. The system automatically scores evaluations and also seeks to have results reviewed and reproduced by other people. It's not enough they beat us at chess and go, now they want to take away Ms. Pacman?
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Grady Booch, co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. "You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back."
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